Section 15Part 0 —
Duties of witnesses
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All persons summoned to attend and give evidence, or to produce books, plans or documents at any sitting of any Commissioners appointed by the Court in any suit for partition, shall be bound to obey the summons served upon them as fully in all respects as witnesses are bound to obey subpoenas issued from the Court. Every person refusing or omitting without sufficient cause to attend at the time and place mentioned in the summons served on that person, and every person attending but leaving the Commission without permission of the Commissioners, or refusing without sufficient cause to answer, or to answer fully and satisfactorily to the best of that person's knowledge and belief all questions put to that person by or with the concurrence of the Commissioners, or refusing or omitting without sufficient cause to produce any books, plans or documents in that person's possession or under that person's control, and mentioned or referred to in the summons served on that person; and every person who, at any sitting of the Commission, wilfully insults any Commissioner, or wilfully interrupts the proceedings of the Commission, commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of sixty dollars, and in default of payment to imprisonment, for three months.